Camping in the trees We spent the last two nights staying in a treehouse in a campground built up on the property of a mansion in the Loire valley. French campgrounds seem to be run like summer camp. This campground has a number of canvas tents and small cabins for rent, a pool with a waterside and lazy river, a spa, store, restaurant, bar, and kids camp activities during the day. We constantly see people walking by with baguettes or take out pizza boxes. At...

Well Disney does know how to put on a great show! We lucked out a bit because the crowds were small and line ups were a fraction of what they could have been. At one point Space Mountain had a sign saying there was a 10 minute wait which actually meant a 10 minute walk through the trough where the line up is supposed to be followed by zero wait time. Both Colin and I managed a couple of solo runs and relieved our childhood memories. We spent 2 and a half-days tr...

Paris with children is very different than Paris as a young carefree adult ... We have found every public toilet and spend hours each day asking hotels to use their toilettes because "mes filles ont besion ". Our kids have been awesome and we have enjoyed almost every moment with them as they soak up the sights, sounds and smells of a very busy Paris. They cast a different perspective on everything with incessant questions such as - I notice that lots of people w...

Check out a well written captains log from our friend Tim on our sailing adventures in Croatia. It was so great to hang out with Tim, Debbie, Mira and Shannon again. It felt natural and surreal to chose a sailboat in the middle of the Adriatic Sea to hang out with long lost friends from Yellowknife. http://www.offexploring.com/pogue/blog/croatia/hvar/2014-05-18%2003:28:05

My kids talked me into putting an earring in. Rhian even helped them pick one out for me then helped jam it into the earring hole in my ear that hasn't seen an earring in the past 9 years. While I think it goes well with my Captains hat I think I will be switching to something that looks less like a Smartie.